How to Draw like Giacometti

Learn how to draw like Giacometti with this easy step by step tutorial. His elongated figures had a certain look that is fun to imitate.

OK, so Alberto Giacometti was most famously a sculptor back in the early 1900s, not a 2 dimensional artist, but I bet that he at least made a few sketches of his large works of art before he had them made.

His very long and skinny bodies had a very specific look, and any artist that was going to create with something as unforgiving as steel, had to start with a good plan.

This tutorial will help students draw a person with the “Giacometti” look, with a few options for getting creative in their poses.

Teachers can use this as a precursor for an actual sculpture project (pipe cleaners maybe?) or just keep it as a fun art history drawing. The bodies should be a solid black color, but the background could finished with any number of creative solutions.

MATERIALS

• Draw Giacometti (click to download a PDF)
• Drawing paper
• Black marker
• Crayons

DIRECTIONS